Table 2.
Characteristics of five non-immunocompromised patients with severe rhinovirus-associated pneumonia.
Patient No. | Year/ month |
Age /sex |
Underlying disease or condition | Category of pneumonia | Nasopharyngeal rhinovirus PCR | Co-pathogen | CT findings | Complication | Outcome (cause of death) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2010/ April |
73/ male |
COPD | CAP | Not done | None | Bilateral mulifocal pathy consolidation and ground-glass opacities with interlobular septal thickening | Right ventricular failure | Died at hospital day 9 (pulmonary embolism) |
2 | 2010/ June |
84/ male |
COPD, bronchiectasis | HAP | Negative | None | Both lower lung consolidation | Atrial fibrillation, hypoxic brain damage | Alive |
3 | 2010/ September |
70/ male |
None | CAP | Positive | None | Both lower lung consolidation | None | Alive |
4 | 2010/ October |
81/ male |
None | CAP | Positive | None | Right mid-lobe and lower lobe consolidation, left hydropneumothorax | Acinetobacter baumannii ventilator-associated pneumonia | Died at hospital day 81 (ventilator-associated pneumonia) |
5 | 2012/ January |
64/ male |
Diabetes mellitus, fishbone-associated esophageal abscess → s/p surgical drainage | HAP | Negative | A. baumannii + respiratory syncytial virus A | Bilateral multifocal ground-glass opacity | Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis | Alive |
ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; COPD, chronic obstructive lung disease; CT, computed tomography; HAP, hospital-acquired pneumonia.